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I have no sense of direction and can't find the same place twice. Take me and Mr. Atticus.

Seriously. The dog deserves to hunt.

People tend to remember the good spots and not the bad ones.

But seriously - if you want to treat Atticus I guarantee you he'd have a lot more fun and so would you - putting 6 Rooster pheasant in a field at Lone Oak and letting him get a snoot full of find and flush.

Because, they are closer than blood, and would sooner castrate themselves than do anything to "hurt" me.

I would give my life for them, and they for me.

My acquaintances are just acquaintances. We have fun together, but they don't qualify as Friends.

They don't get to see what it is that makes me who I am. And they don't need to.

It is said that blood is thicker than water. But, you don't get to pick your relatives.
You do however get to pick your Friends. Choose wisely.

Wish I could agree with that but don't -at least not on hunting spots. Until you take on the responsibility to be the guy with the permission, great spots, etc...you can't fully appreciate the perspective of protecting it. I can't qualify the virtue or value of a friend solely based on their affinity to hunt as I do.

But I can understand that and choose not to hunt with them. Up to and until the time they've done the same and by the nature of it, feel the same.

My motivation is a quality hunt afield in peace, be it alone or with another like-minded. It's not a social event. Hard to judge someone as a friend that doesn't embrace the same - it just means I don't invite them.

Can't win.
I was invited to a goose shoot in a particular field four years ago. Often drove by and reported whether there were birds in there or not back to the fellow that invited me but never went in without him.
Another friend rented this same field (about three hundred acres) for crops and was a personal friend of the landowner. I was invited to shoot with the renter.
The first (now ex-friend) came by while we were still in the field and questioned my ethics since I knew the field was his, and I did. He even went so far as to complain to the landowner.
The landowner got in touch with the renter and asked him whether he should kick the first guy off permantently. A conundrum.

The comment was made that the guy with the permission sometimes feels he has more ownership than the landowner.
I continue to shoot with the renter and have lost friend.

I had a friend I used to deer hunt with a lot ,until I took him to a private farm once ,then he went back without me and told the land owner that I said it was alright. I no longer have that friend or farm.